Tag: food-distribution
“The last fight of Jean-Charles Naouri”
The boss of Groupe Casino, Jean-Charles Naouri, February 21, 2013, in Paris. ERIC PIERMONT / AFP Lhe story begins in an ephemeral café chantant, rue des Jardins, in Saint-Etienne, towards…
Casino to study sale of additional supermarkets and hypermarkets
In front of a Casino supermarket in Nice, January 31, 2022. ERIC GAILLARD / REUTERS Financially struggling Casino to consider sale of additional supermarkets and hypermarkets after receiving offers “foreplay”…
“The country and its political decision-makers balance between defending the consumer, the environment and the producer”
In front of a store, in Paris, November 23, 2018. STRINGER / AFP LThe Ecological Transition Agency has just invented a new profession, that of “reseller”. The friendly bearded man…
Negotiations are progressing for the takeover of the Buitoni factory in Caudry, in the North
The entrance to the Buitoni group factory, in Caudry (North), September 15, 2022. DENIS CHARLET / AFP Eight months after the cessation of production of frozen pizzas at the Buitoni…
The wooden Camembert box saved by the European Parliament
A wooden box of Camembert, November 21, 2023. CHRISTOPHE ENA / AP The threat is lifted for the famous wooden Camembert boxes, which in a few days have become the…
French MEPs help the box of Camembert
During the Brexit campaign in 2016, British conservative Boris Johnson loved to mock European legislation which, he claimed, very wrongly, would ban bananas. “curves” and bunches of more than three…
“All French agriculture must move to agroecology and, wherever relevant, to organic”
NOTur food system must be transformed to guarantee access for the entire population to healthy food, respecting the living conditions of farmers and planetary limits. It is crucial to restore…
the Nutri-score is emulated
In a supermarket in Nantes, February 2023. LOIC VENANCE / AFP Food, DIY, sports, household appliances… labeling intended to guide consumer choice towards products that are less harmful to health…
in the most affected areas, “the economy is no longer running and people are breaking down, they are at their wits’ end”
In Neuville-sous-Montreuil (Pas-de-Calais), November 9, 2023. SAMEER AL-DOUMY / AFP Although it is still too early to be able to draw up an exhaustive assessment of the floods which have…
In China, a “singles party” without gala or glitter
Weakened, Casino continues its financial restructuring
A Casino hypermarket, in Villefranche-sur-Saône (Rhône), April 28, 2023. JEFF PACHOUD / AFP Step by step, like a customer resolutely pushing his shopping cart from aisle to aisle toward the…